Bedclothes clamp



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Patented Feb. 7, 1950 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE BEDCLOTHES CLAMP Bronislaw Wandel, Boston, Mass. Application December 19, 1945, Serial No. 635,900

1 Claim.

My invention relates to clamp attachments for cribs, bedsteads and the like, such as are provided and used to hold in place the sheets, blankets and other bedclothes, thereby to prevent displacement thereof through movements of the occupant.

The invention has for its object to provide, as a new article of manufacture, an efficient, attractive and inexpensive attachment of the character described which, in the preferred embodiment thereof, may consist in most part of a single piece of round wire or bar stock bent to shape so as to provide the same with a cantilever arm having means at one end thereof for clutching a slat or post of the bed or crib so that the free end of said arm is maintained in holding engagement with the bedclothes, the intermediate portion of said arm being bent laterally and upwardly to provide the same with a handle by means of which the device can be conveniently manipulated when applying the same to, or removing it from, a crib or bedstead.

Other features of the invention are hereinafter pointed out.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a top plan clamp constructed in accordance with this inventionv Figure 2 is a side elevation partly in section of the clamp showing the same applied to a ver tical slat or post of a crib.

The illustrated embodiment of the invention is made from a round rod of either a synthetic thermoplastic resin or of steel, one-quarter of an inch in diameter and twenty-two inches long. When made of steel the device may be plated with chromium, cadmium or nickel and buffed to give to it an attractive appearance. When made from synthetic resin no plating or polishing is necessary, and moreover such material may be procured either water-clear or colored which is advantageous when it is desired to have the color of the device harmonize with the color of the bedclothes.

The rod referred to is bent to provide an approximately straight cantilever arm in whereof one end is formed with two spaced-apart opposed crotches H and 12 disposed one above the other which embrace the slat or post l3 of the crib or bedstead from opposite sides thereof so as to firmly clutch the post or slat when an upward pressure is imposed upon the outer free end of the cantilever arm 10, the arms I4 and [5 of the crotches that are disposed upon one side of the slat or post 13 being connected by an S-shaped portion l6 of the rod.

The intermediate portion 11 of the crotch I2 has mounted upon it a tubular sheath l8 of resilient rubber which frictionally engages the slat or post l3 and also protects the latter against injury.

view of a bedclothes The intermediate portion of the cantilever arm I0 is coiled into an upwardly extending loop l9 which provides a handle by means of which the device may be conveniently and expeditiously manipulated when applying it;to and removing it from the slat or post [3 of the crib or bedstead.

At its free end the cantilever arm H] is formed with a short downwardly projecting hook-like terminal portion 20 upon which is telescopically and permanently fitted a cap 2| of resilient rubber which shields the bedclothes against injury and also frictionally engages the latter.

It will be understood that the bedclothes and mattress of a crib or bedstead are markedly springy and therefore when the device is applied to a vertical slat or post and shoved downwardly the free end of the cantilever arm It will compress the same with the result that an upward pressure will be imposed upon the free end of arm [0 thereby causing crotches II and I2 to tightly clutch the slat or post 13 and hold the device against upward displacement thereon during use of the crib or bedstead It is also true that the length of that portion of the bar stock which constitutes the cantilever arm ill with its loop I9 is sufiiciently great to give to said arm 10 a substantial degree of springiness or lateral resiliency so that when in engagement with the bedclothes 22 it is under stress and slightly flexed.

What I claim is:

A bedclothes clamp made from a single length of bar stock having one end portion formed with a pair of opposed spaced-apart crotches disposed one above the other and adapted to embrace a slat or post of a crib or bedstead at opposite sides thereof, and said length of bar stock having its opposite end portion extending directly outwardly from one side of the lowermost crotch to pro vide a cantilever arm for engagement at its free end with the bedclothes thereby to cause said crotches to clutch said slat or post so that the clamp is held against displacement thereon, said cantilever arm having its intermediate portion provided with an upstanding handle loop and its outer end portion formed with a relatively short downwardly extending portion for endwise engagement with the bedclothes.

BRONISLAW WANDEL.

REFERENCES CITED ,The following references are of record in the fileof this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 347,079 Williams Aug. 10, 1886 1703,955 Flicek July 1, 1902 30 .1,,;Q64,858 Rundel June 17, 1913 2,022,169 Yamashiro Nov. 26, 1935 

